Being elk and mule deer country, southwest Montana isn’t heralded for booming whitetail herds, much less midwestern-style deer drives, but several had huddled midday in a block of cottonwoods ...

Score: 333-⅞” Location: Missouri. Year: 1981. You are looking at the biggest wild nontypical whitetail ever measured—and one that was also never duped by a hunter.

Whitetail deer scat. Mara Koenig/USFWS. Deer poop is another easy way to identify that whitetails have been in the area. Look for an area that has a variety of scat freshness. In other words, there’s ...

Most of the more than 400,000 whitetail hunters who will be afield this weekend on the Minnesota firearms deer opener hope to shoot a big buck. Few will. Everyone, however, can hunt successfully.

Whitetail deer, as are other Cervidae, are termed “short-day breeders.” What that means is their hormones and pheromones are influenced to a great degree by light and photoperiodism.

Researchers with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida photographed a Burmese python swallowing a full-sized whitetail deer in December 2022. The photos confirmed one of the researchers' worst fears: ...

The state is a literal 17-million-acre forested playground for hunters, with about 320,000 whitetail deer call Maine home. Most of them are situated in the central and southern parts of the state.

Older Minnesota deer hunters are missing in action About 10,000 Minnesota deer hunters in the 50-55 age group have been lost between 2015 and 2021. By Dennis Anderson ...

November is peak mating season for whitetail deer and may present a bigger risk for drivers, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources said. To stream News 8 on your phone, you need the News 8 app ...

Most people understand that the largest number of whitetail deer fawns are born in the spring. But unfortunately, that is about all they know concerning newborn deer. And there is so much more ...

Outdoors Columnist Oak Duke has a few helpful hints to harvest a deer during New York state's holiday season from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1.